Move over Suicide Squad, a new anti-hero team is in town. Ahead of its premiere on 5 December, James Gunn’s Creature Commandos animated series has received its first trailer at New York Comic Con 2024, treating fans to a first look at the glorious splatter to come.
Set amid an “international incident”, in the words of Amanda Waller (voiced by Viola Davis), it opens with a group of monsters being let out of prison, each of whom gets a brief introduction, starting with The Bride (Indira Varma, Game of Thrones). The rest of the team includes Frankenstein (David Harbour, Stranger Things), Dr. Phosphorus (Alan Tudyk, Firefly), Weasel (Sean Gunn, The Suicide Squad), Nina Mazursky (Zoë Chao, Strangers), G.I. Robot (also Gunn), alongside Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo, Captain America: Civil War) as their handler in the field.
Steve Agee (Shazam!) as Economos, Maria Bakalova (Bodies Bodies Bodies) as Princess Ilana, and Anya Chalotra (The Witcher) as Circe round out the remaining cast. “We’re so hyperbolically violent,” says Mazursky at one point in the trailer. “We need therapy.” Damn right.
The seven-episode show will kick off Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe, previously known as the DC Extended Universe, as the first title from DC Studios. It picks up after the first season of Peacekeeper, and according to the official logline, “tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails… they’re your last, worst option.”
Creature Commandos is written and executive produced by Gunn, based on the DC Comics featuring the eponymous team. DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation are co-producing, with Safran, Dean Lorey, and Sam Register serving as additional executive producers, and Rick Morales as supervising producer. The series starts airing on 5 December and will release new episodes each week on Max through 16 January 2025.
Following its release, the DC Universe is set to welcome Season 2 of Peacemaker, which sees John Cena reprising his role as the titular antihero. Gunn’s Superman reboot, starring David Corenswet, takes flight next on 11 July 2025, joining Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, The Authority, The Brave and the Bold, Swamp Thing, and TV shows like Lanterns, Waller, Paradise Lost, Booster Gold, and more in fleshing out the vast reserves of DC Comics lore.
Si Jia is a casual geek at heart – or as casual as someone with Sephiroth’s theme on her Spotify playlist can get. A fan of movies, games, and Japanese culture, Si Jia’s greatest weakness is the Steam Summer Sale. Or any Steam sale, really.
Natalie
Kevin Low
